(11-07-2018 12:23 AM)cr11owl Wrote: When do we select homecoming? It was most likely scheduled before our conference schedule even came out.
That isn't possible: Homecoming cannot be scheduled until the football schedule is known. And I know from personal experience in planning some reunions that the date is selected shortly after the schedule is known.
Here some of the factors that go into selecting a Homecoming date:
- Home football game (duh!)
- October or November
- Not midterm break
- Not Thanksgiving weekend
- Preferably not the weekend before Thanksgiving
Besides Homecoming, there is also Families Weekend, which needs to be a home football game in late September or October and not midterm break.
Of Rice's (typically) six home games, it is almost inevitable that at least two are before October, and at least one falls on one of the weekends near Thanksgiving. So in any given year, there are only a few logical choices -- usually only one -- for the Homecoming date.
In 2018, for example, there were only three home games between Labor Day and the weekend before Thanksgiving:
- UTSA on 10/06
- UAB on 10/13
- UTEP on 11/03.
But 10/06 was during midterm break. So Families Weekend had to be 10/13, and Homecoming had to be 11/03 -- no other reasonable choices.